Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life. Sonnet 15. The Birth-Bond

Have you not noted, in some family
Where two were born of a first marriage-bed,
How still they own their gracious bond, though fed
And nursed on the forgotten breast and knee?--
How to their father's children they shall be
In act and thought of one goodwill; but each
Shall for the other have, in silence speech,
And in a word complete community?

Even So, when first l saw you, seemed it, love,
That among souls allied to mine was yet
One nearer kindred than life hinted of.
O born with me somewhere that men forget,
And though in years of sight and sound unmet,
Known for my soul's birth-partner well enough!

1. The House of Life. Sonnet 61. The Song-Throe
2. The House of Life. Sonnet 84. Farewell to the Glen
3. The House of Life. Sonnet 14. Youth's Spring-Tribute
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 45. Secret Parting
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 87. Death's Songsters

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